SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Think Again How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen How Much Stock to Ask For When Joining a Startup - Startup Professionals Musings , June 20, 2010 Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 Eight Tips To Successfully Bootstrap Your Business Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. March 3, 2009 9:54 PM surya said. March 3, 2009 10:02 PM Sean Murphy said. March 3, 2009 11:15 PM kareem said. March 3, 2009 11:28 PM Jon said. Dont even go there.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”. VC funding is definitely back from the constipation that was 2009 replete with frothy valuations chasing dreams of the next Facebook, Groupon or Zynga.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

In my dataset, half of the teams had neglected to include any dynamic elements (vesting, buyout terms, and the like) in their equity agreements, sentencing themselves to the same risks faced by the Zipcar and govWorks.com teams. Lean Startup Book. The Lean Startup at SXSW 2012. The Lean Startup Book Tour. Older Post.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2022

Lean on these people and make sure they know their role in your world – people appreciate it. I starting thinking about advisors in 2009 publicly. Having advisors invest in your company and vesting into early stage equity is a powerful combination. If the president has a cabinet, you should too. Fundraising.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. The next few reasons shed more light as to why we chose to shut down instead of finding more cash. #4

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.”

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